Polo Masters Cup

Bin Drai Battle For Success

Second stage of Dubai Polo Gold Cup Series

7FEB

12 FEB FINAL

Where: Al Habtoor Polo Resort and Club

Photography by AHPRC

Bin Drai, winners of The Polo Masters Cup Final

The Polo Masters Cup is the second phase of The Dubai Polo Gold Cup Series and this year’s tournament saw seven teams, up to 8 goals, compete in the week-long tournament, with a roster of top players including Lukin Monteverde, Tommy Beresford and Ricardo Garrós. Finals day began with Estancia Lamar narrowly defeating El Basha Polo, 6-5, before the main event of the day – The Polo Masters Cup Final between Ankora Polo and Bin Drai Polo. Raul Laplacette opened the scoring for Bin Drai and consecutive goals from Laplacette resulted in a comfortable 6-3 lead by half-time. Ricardo Garrós, later named Most Valuable Player, scored two goals for Ankora to bring them within striking distance in the third chukka, 7-5, but Bin Drai continued their goal scoring to secure the win, 9-6.

Final Teams: Bin Drai (8)

Faisal Yabroudi (0) Rashid bin Drai (1) Khalid bin Drai (1) Raul Laplacette (6)

Ankora (8)

Mohammed Khalid (-1) Khalid Alomran (0) Ricardo Garrós (5) Pablo Urquiza (4) Chukka scores: 2-1, 6-3, 7-5, 9-6 to Bin Drai

MVP

Ricardo Garrós

BPP

Pico Flor, played by Ricardo Garrós